Description
Job Title: AI Engineer - FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer) - U.S. Federal Sector
Job Description: The AI Forward Deployed Engineering (AI FDE) team is a highly specialized customer-facing AI team at Databricks. We deliver professional services engagements to help our federal government customers build and productionize first-of-its-kind AI applications.
Responsibilities:
- Develop cutting-edge GenAI solutions, incorporating the latest techniques from our Mosaic AI Research to solve customer problems.
- Own production rollouts of consumer and internally facing GenAI applications.
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers across a variety of domains.
- Present at conferences such as Data + AI Summit, recognized as a thought leader internally and externally.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with the product and engineering teams to influence priorities and shape the product roadmap.
What We Look For:
- Experience working with U.S. federal civilian, state, or local agencies.
- Experience building GenAI applications, including RAG, multi-agent systems, Text2SQL, fine-tuning, etc., with tools such as HuggingFace, LangChain, and DSPy.
- Expertise in deploying production-grade GenAI applications, including evaluation and optimizations.
- Extensive years of hands-on industry data science experience, leveraging common machine learning and data science tools (i.e., pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch, etc.).
- Experience building production-grade machine learning deployments on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Graduate degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Operations Research, etc.) or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience communicating and/or teaching technical concepts to non-technical and technical audiences alike.
- Passion for collaboration, life-long learning, and driving business value through AI.
Pay Range Transparency:
Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles.
Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location.
Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range.
The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above.
For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.
Local Pay Range $180,656-$248,360 USD
Benefits:
At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees.
For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:
At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel.
We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards.
Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.
Compliance:
If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.